Some time back I decided to test the theory if I could make money from twitter. So I did just that. As a background I had 6500 followers the day of the test, not a big number but hey bigger than 6. This took me 8 weeks to grow and now I am putting on around 1000 a week. Important to note that these are all in my niche. Anyway back to the point.
The test I decided was a simple one. Tweet an affiliate link out. Don’t put the link anywhere else, just on twitter. I tweeted it just six times, this would help cover all time zones. what I wrote was @ Matt Bacak and Shawn Casey together, what more could you want? to make money on line. Go here http://www.ipcgold.com/ad/2079/CD74819.
So what happened I had 36 clicks and no sales. Which in sales terms is 0.005% of a reaction ratio. Also I need to say I did this on a Saturday night, when you expect a lot of people to be tweeting. What has my experiment proved?
Well I believe that twitter at best is shotgun marketing. To explain shotgun marketing, it is shooting a wide blast and hoping the something runs into the bullet. I personally prefer sniper marketing, that is you see and know your target. Therefore with twitter, the reaction rate is low. Now you might say that this is only one test. You would be right, except for I have targeted my followers, most have used the term internet marketing, in their tweets at some point. So you would expect that I would get a large reaction, which did not happen. Lets look at some of the possibilities.
1. This is social media its not meant to be precise.
2. No one interested in the product. Matt and Shawn are two of the greats in internet Marketing. So that doesn’t make sense.
So maybe the real reason is that people have just too many tweets coming across their screens, I now get around 1200 a minute. So is twitter bad at getting traffic. No its great you just have to tweet more. The reason it bombed is I only did it six times in a night, it should have been 6 times an hour.
A great thing for twitter is you can build relationships. The more people see your name, the more they get to know you, the more you will sell. Of course another great way is… make a course on twitter.
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